Stevens v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• describing scope of learned intermediary doctrine as applying to any healthcare professional responsible for making decisions regarding the patient’s case
• adopting cross-jurisdictional tolling, but noting that a considerable number of jurisdictions have not squarely addressed the issue, and noting that the “outlines [of the doctrine] are still in the process of developing[]”
• stating modem pleading mies only entitle defendants to notice of the nature of the claim; defendants’ alleged failure to warn, and the injury caused as a result, served as the underpinning for both the class action and plaintiff s individual claim; both actions substantially similar
• allowing cross-jurisdictional tolling under the reasoning of American Pipe

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).